Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The NY Times has a piece today on the annual BlogHer conference which was held last week. Sadly the Times relegates the piece to the “Style” section while claiming women bloggers are breaking “Blogging’s Glass Ceiling.” The BlogHer conference “began in 2005 to help female bloggers gain exposure,” clearly we still have a long way to [...]
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
A quick thought on John McCain’s bad weekend… Let’s hope it’s a trend for McCain. Because John McCain doesn’t really know what Iraqi’s or American’s want. Barack Obama knows American’s want out of Iraq and he’s in Iraq scoping out the facts on the ground.
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Many Americans have dug a hole so deep thanks to corporate bankers and our government’s propensity to bail them out before helping the little people that are losing their homes, that it could be a long while before we’ve seen the end of our collective economic nightmare. It doesn’t take a degree in rocket science [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Just a quick note to readers… The upgrade I mentioned in my post below has been completed. We are now running on the latest version of Word Press. I haven’t had a chance to fully look through the new features, but will later tonight.
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve been messing around today with Plugins and getting ready to upgrade The Dem Daily to the latest version of Word Press. We have a new comment platform and I’ve done away with the comment preview feature. The new comment platform does have spell check.
Just a word of warning… I’m getting ready to start the [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” — Anaïs Nin
I’ve certainly experienced this reality. My relationship with The Democratic Daily is a good example. It has enriched my life.
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Katharine Q. Seelye of the NY Times is at Netroots Nation and she reports that members of the netroots are swearing off their “use of profanity” in the blogosphere… or at least some say they “have scaled back” on it.
Digby Parton, who writes on Hullabaloo.com, said she initially thought of her blog as an ephemeral [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Al Gore wowed the “the Netroots Crowd” today at Netroots Nation. Here’s Part 1 of Al Gore at NetRoots Nation on video:
Egalia has more on Tennessee Guerilla Women.
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Al Gore gave an impassioned speech today in Washington, “laying out his new approach to the entwined challenges of limiting risks from global warming and instability from rising energy prices and declining supplies of fossil fuels.” Watch a clip from Al Gore’s speech here:
In his speech, Gore put forth a challenge to citzens and politicians in [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Today John McCain called Social Security “a disgrace,” and told reporters on his campaign bus:
“I’m receiving the benefits, the system is broken and, unfortunately, my children and grandchildren, according to the trustees of the Social Security system, will not have the same benefits the present retirees have.”
If it’s so broken, I can’t help but wonder [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
As some former Clinton supporters continue to press on with the idea that Hillary Clinton should be our nominee, the HuffPo reports today Hillary Clinton has distanced herself from at least one prominent “Anti-Obama Hillraiser,” Ricki Lieberman.
Lieberman is keeping her own private hope alive with a daily email blast to supporters, entitled “Electability Watch,” which features [...]
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Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s two weekend must reads on Jane Mayer’s new book, The Dark Side, The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.
First check out the review by Andrew J. Bacevich, in the WaPo: Collateral Damage:
In The Dark Side, Jane Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, documents [...]
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